Word: free
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...democratic association could promote free elections not only by actual observation of their processes, but by strengthening the international perception of their fairness, Bhutto said...
EVEN if the University divests from South Africa, however, the need for dissenting views on the Board will not disappear. No institution in our society--with the possible exception of the judiciary--has a greater responsibility than a university to guarantee the free expression of ideas. As one of the pre-eminent centers of education in the nation and the world, Harvard has the responsibility not only to allow those who agree with its policies to voice their concerns, but also those who disagree...
...their heads shaved and bowed, their wrists cuffed, signs detailing their crimes strapped around their necks. Hour after hour, run their "confessions" of wrongdoing on national television. Construct a new reality, one that checks democratic aspirations by preying on fear and paranoia. The result? "A week ago we were free to say anything," says a university professor. "Now I suspect everybody...
...desperate enough -- to buy the government's line. But they are toeing it, as a sullen normality descends on the city. Although most of the tanks are gone, the streets still teem with helmeted soldiers, AK-47s poised at their sides. The handwritten broadsheets that served as a free press have been peeled from walls, but perhaps some cyclists are heartened as they spot one last declaration chalked on the Forbidden City: THE FASCIST GOVERNMENT OPPRESSES THE ENTIRE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY. It is impossible to know what the people are thinking; they have lapsed into silence...
...proceed with the merger in the face of the Paramount attack, Time abandoned its earlier plan for a debt-free, tax-free stock swap with Warner, and instead launched a $70-a-share tender offer for 100 million of Warner's nearly 200 million shares. That would buy Time a controlling interest in its merger partner; the remaining Warner stock will be acquired later in exchange for cash and securities. The deal will cost Time the kind of debt it and Warner had hoped to avoid -- somewhere between $7 billion and $14 billion. Unlike the original Time-Warner arrangement...